Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-06-23
THE EAST.

NEW YORK police recently sent ont gen
eral alarm for T. B. McMauus, zeal estate
man, who had been missing for several
days. He had sold much real estate and his
wife thought he had $685. or S7O,O 600 cash
with him, besides a gold watch and dia-
mond pin. He had acted strangely of late.
THREE judgments of foreclosures of mort
cages against the Buffalo, New York &
Philadelphia railroad have been granted in
the Buffalo courts.
THE blast furnace owners of Pittsburgh
and vicinity have positively refused to pay
more than 81. so per ton for coke
BARCLAY PEAK, of Mount Holly, N j.,
has been convicted of the murder of his
cousin, Miss Anderson.
WILLIAM BACON STEVENS, DID,, LII. D..
Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania of
the Protestant Episcopal Church, died at
Philadelphia the other morning. Bishop
Stevens was seventy-two years of age,
having been born in Bath, Me-, July is
1S15
nitro glycerine near Olean, N. ", recently,
Lem Hart was blown to pieces by an ex-
plosion.
Two men were fatally injured in Kauf-
mans stone quarry near Leesport, Pa, re-
Gently, while examining charge which
had previously failed to explode.
THE Pennsylvania coke strike, affecting
ing of an advance of 1919 per cent
THE decline in coffee caused an excited
market in New York on the 18th. Three
firms went to the wall, the most notable of
which was B. G. Arnold & Co., with liabill-
ties said to be 81, 100000
JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG, ex-United States
Minister to China, has been elected presi-
dent of the Anti-Poverty Society of Phila-
delphia.
JUDGE BROWN, of the United States Dis
trict Court of New York, has ordered that
the assisted immigrants refused admission
solely because their fares had been paid by
Great Britain should be admitted.
By a fall of rock in Mill Creek colliery at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, recently, Peter Ceimmer
and Simon Charmesky were killed, and
Michael Fisher and John Prodosky severe
ly injured, the former so badly that re-
covery was impossible.
THE lower house of the Massachusetts
Legislature has rejected the constitutional
prohibitory ameudment-135 to 13.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the Union Labor
party of New York State held conference
at Elmira on the 18th.
RUMoRs were current at Coxsackie. n. Y,
recently that the National Bank was in
trouble. The directors were silent about
the matter, but it was learned that Sidney
A. Dwight, the cashier, was between $50
900 and $50 900 short in his accounts.
ST. MARY's Episcopal Church, Boston, was
Quilted by fire the other morning: loss,
$4,000. The fire was believed to be of in
cendiary origin.
DUNDAs DICK, the noted New York pat
emit medicine man, has been declared in
sane.
EVERY coke producer IN the Councils
vile (Pa.) region, except Carnegie Broth.
ers, has resolved not to grant the advance
demanded by the cokeworkers.
THE Hungarian coke workers employed
by Schoon maker & Co. at Jimtown, Pa,
have returned to work at their old wages.
The Washington Manufacturing Com
pany Of Philadelphia, cotton and wooden
goods, has suspended payment, with liabii-
ties of $3.50, 600 and assets, counting the
mill and machinery at cost, of about 81 :
$50, IA The mill has not been been max
ing money Cor some time.
THERE were rumors in New York recent
" of q trust company being organized to
take in the telegraph companies
The Rhode Island House has passed . bill
TO enforce the prohibitory amendment.
Born branches of the Massachusetts
Legislature were prorogued On the 18th.